A Psychologically Inspired Fuzzy Cognitive Deep Learning Framework to Predict Crowd Behavior

In an intelligent surveillance system, detecting and predicting diverse collective crowd behaviors has emerged as a challenging problem for efficient crowd management. In real-world scenarios, potential disasters and hazards can be averted by considering crowd psychology for predicting crowd behaviors. This article proposes an approach that exploits the psychological and cognitive aspects of human behavior in determining nine diverse crowd behaviors. The proposed approach is a combination of two cognitive deep learning frameworks and a psychological fuzzy computational model that utilizes OCC theory of emotions, OCEAN five-factor model of personality and visual attention for detecting crowd behaviors. Experiments are performed on different datasets and the results prove that our approach is successful in detecting and predicting crowd behavior in confronting situations and also outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. In particular, considering psychological aspects and cognition in determining crowd behavior is beneficial for rectifying the semantic ambiguity in identifying crowd behaviors.